How Big Things Get Done

Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner's 2023 account of why large projects go over budget and schedule — and what the rare successful megaprojects have in common — covering the Pixar method, modularity, and thinking from the right to the left.

Identifies the pattern of successful megaprojects — Flyvbjerg's research shows that the projects that succeed are those that spend more time planning (think slow, act fast), use modular designs, and draw on reference class forecasting rather than optimistic projections.